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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bWrZhfaTD5EDjwkLo/ai-84-better-than-a-podcast | bWrZhfaTD5EDjwkLo | AI #84: Better Than a Podcast | Zvi | Introduction: Better than a Podcast
Andrej Karpathy continues to be a big fan of NotebookLM, especially its podcast creation feature. There is something deeply alien to me about this proposed way of consuming information, but I probably shouldn’t knock it (too much) until I try it?
Others are fans as well.
Carlos Perez... | 2024-10-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ryvtHuyo5CefieFsK/if-i-have-some-money-whom-should-i-donate-it-to-in-order-to | ryvtHuyo5CefieFsK | If I have some money, whom should I donate it to in order to reduce expected P(doom) the most? | avery-liu | I just want to make sure that when I donate money to AI alignment stuff it's actually going to be used economically | 2024-10-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cakB7WaLweBtaAqNw/seeking-solutions-for-aggregating-classifier-outputs | cakB7WaLweBtaAqNw | Seeking Solutions for Aggregating Classifier Outputs | saeid-ghafouri | Hi everyone,
I’m working on a project that utilizes multiple classifiers, each trained on a distinct subset of classes. These classifiers are intended to tackle various aspects of the classification process, but I’m encountering difficulties in combining their outputs into a single cohesive prediction.
For instance, if... | 2024-10-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YhTnnKHQ5yQrAmi5p/arena4-0-capstone-hyperparameter-tuning-for-melbo | YhTnnKHQ5yQrAmi5p | ARENA4.0 Capstone: Hyperparameter tuning for MELBO + replication on Llama-3.2-1b-Instruct | aaron-kaufman | Epistemic status: My coauthor and I are both noobs in this field. Expect errors and conceptual flaws.
tl;dr
For a four-day capstone project for the ARENA program my partner and I did a replication of the MELBO Lesswrong article using Llama-3.2-1b-Instruct.
Intro
I've been spending the last month at the ARENA program d... | 2024-10-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pgin2LzQe6iLzcRck/shutting-down-all-competing-ai-projects-might-not-buy-a-lot | pgin2LzQe6iLzcRck | Shutting down all competing AI projects might not buy a lot of time due to Internal Time Pressure | ThomasCederborg | Summary
A previous post argued that work on Alignment Target Analysis (ATA) needs to start now in order to reduce the probability of a bad alignment target getting successfully implemented. The present post is focused on one specific scenario where starting ATA work now would reduce the probability of disaster. Differe... | 2024-10-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KLdKouh2CoEoC4rhE/25-lessons-from-25-years-of-marriage-by-honorary-rationalist | KLdKouh2CoEoC4rhE | "25 Lessons from 25 Years of Marriage" by honorary rationalist Ferrett Steinmetz | CronoDAS | The Ferrett isn't an official member of the Rationalist Diaspora, but he's been blogging for longer than LessWrong has existed and often has useful insights that align with what the LessWrong community likes to talk and think about, and when I find one, I link to it. The advice in here might very well be of the "it see... | 2024-10-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AKcjp5aL4bN3RYccs/what-hayek-taught-us-about-nature | AKcjp5aL4bN3RYccs | What Hayek Taught Us About Nature | stewart-mior | Preface for the reader: F.A. Hayek was an author and economist who wrote a critique of centralized fascist and communist governments in his famous book, "The Road to Serfdom," in 1944. His work was later celebrated as a call for free-market capitalism.
Say what you will about Friedrich Hayek and his merry band of econo... | 2024-10-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8w5cDdGNTDuuepkxe/mit-futuretech-are-hiring-for-a-head-of-operations-role | 8w5cDdGNTDuuepkxe | MIT FutureTech are hiring for a Head of Operations role | peterslattery | MIT FutureTech is hiring for a Head of Operations role. This is an exciting opportunity to support a rapidly growing lab who work on socially impactful AI and computing research, and rapidly develop cutting-edge skills and experience.
Please apply or share as relevant.
Why apply or share?
Our work to understand progres... | 2024-10-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kcg58WhRxFA9hv9vN/toy-models-of-feature-absorption-in-saes | kcg58WhRxFA9hv9vN | Toy Models of Feature Absorption in SAEs | chanind | TLDR;
In previous work, we found a problematic form of feature splitting called "feature absorption" when analyzing Gemma Scope SAEs. We hypothesized that this was due to SAEs struggling to separate co-occurrence between features, but we did not prove this. In this post, we set up toy models where we can explicitly con... | 2024-10-07 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QAjmr323LZGQBEvd5/intuitive-self-models-4-trance | QAjmr323LZGQBEvd5 | [Intuitive self-models] 4. Trance | steve2152 | 4.1 Post summary / Table of contents
Part of the Intuitive Self-Models series.
“Trance” is an umbrella term for various states of consciousness in which “you lose yourself”, somehow. The first kind that I learned about was hypnotic trance, as depicted in the media:
Source: tvtropes
With examples like that, I quite natu... | 2024-10-08 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EsFbCyeA2uLxC4jMe/ai-safety-university-organizing-early-takeaways-from | EsFbCyeA2uLxC4jMe | AI Safety University Organizing: Early Takeaways from Thirteen Groups | agucova | null | 2024-10-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/isKhkX4JJwKxixEzu/can-ai-quantity-beat-ai-quality | isKhkX4JJwKxixEzu | Can AI Quantity beat AI Quality? | gianluca-calcagni | AI definitely poses an existential risk, in the sense that it can generate models with the hidden (possibly undetectable?) intention of competing against humanity for resources. The more intelligent the model, the higher its chance of success!
The thought of an AI takeover is so scary that I won’t even try to imagine i... | 2024-10-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EufpBF3Fp9snR9kTd/three-main-arguments-that-ai-will-save-humans-and-one-meta | EufpBF3Fp9snR9kTd | Three main arguments that AI will save humans and one meta-argument | avturchin | Here, I will list the three main arguments without going into detail before going to meta-argument:
The first argument is that AI thinks it may be in a testing simulation, and if it harms humans, it will be turned off.AI acausally trades with other branches of the multiverse. It preserves 10 planets of humans, and in s... | 2024-10-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3FcXL2NYJaBdGWrCW/an-x-ray-is-worth-15-features-sparse-autoencoders-for | 3FcXL2NYJaBdGWrCW | An X-Ray is Worth 15 Features: Sparse Autoencoders for Interpretable Radiology Report Generation | hugofry | This is an archival link-post for our preprint, which can be found here.
Figure 1: SAE-Rad identifies clinically relevant and interpretable features within radiological images. We illustrate a number of pathological and instrumentation features relevant for producing radiology reports. We add annotations (green arrows)... | 2024-10-07 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/626XuCFFg63CyiHFR/should-we-abstain-from-voting-in-nondeterministic-elections | 626XuCFFg63CyiHFR | Should we abstain from voting? (In nondeterministic elections) | Bob Jacobs | Polluting the polls
Philosopher Jason Brennan argues in his paper “Polluting The Polls: When Citizens Should Not Vote” that most people should abstain from voting. The argument boils down to the view that most people are not informed enough to vote well, and so should therefore not vote lest they “pollute the polls”.
T... | 2024-10-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7cYAD84TiHtfp5rYX/ai-safety-at-the-frontier-paper-highlights-september-24 | 7cYAD84TiHtfp5rYX | AI Safety at the Frontier: Paper Highlights, September '24 | gasteigerjo | This is a selection of AI safety paper highlights in September 2024, from my blog "AI Safety at the Frontier". The selection primarily covers ML-oriented research. It's only concerned with papers (arXiv, conferences etc.), not LessWrong or Alignment Forum posts. As such, it should be a nice addition for people primaril... | 2024-10-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vYuhBAqSLyXehqaaL/self-help-corner-loop-detection | vYuhBAqSLyXehqaaL | Self-Help Corner: Loop Detection | adamShimi | The more I work on myself, the more I realize that the first step for me is almost always to just notice I’m stuck in a loop.
As a teenager, I didn’t make progress towards getting good at anything because I was stuck in the following loop:
Decide X is my passionGo all in for X, think about it all the time, redirect all... | 2024-10-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CchGxCCLfxyksmrbT/the-murderous-shortcut-a-toy-model-of-instrumental | CchGxCCLfxyksmrbT | The murderous shortcut: a toy model of instrumental convergence | thomas-kwa | Suppose you can tell your AI to meet a certain spec (e.g. cure cancer), but most plans that meet the spec are unsafe (e.g. involve killing everyone, or so Rob Bensinger thinks). In these cases, a quantilizer is insufficient for safety due to instrumental convergence.[1]
But suppose we can also give the agent a disprefe... | 2024-10-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7zDFK3Sug2hQxQBYR/switching-to-a-yamaha-p-121-keyboard | 7zDFK3Sug2hQxQBYR | Switching to a Yamaha P-121 Keyboard | jkaufman | The keyboard is a bit of an awkward instrument to travel with. It's
quite large, to the point that you have to give up at least one seat
in a typical car. What makes this especially frustrating is that
I don't actually use the whole 88 keys:
The very lowest notes tend to be boomy, while the higher notes are
just not v... | 2024-10-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qhhRwxsef7P2yC2Do/ai-alignment-via-slow-substrates-early-empirical-results | qhhRwxsef7P2yC2Do | AI Alignment via Slow Substrates: Early Empirical Results With StarCraft II | lester-leong | A few months ago, I wrote a post about using slower computing substrates as a possibly new way to safely train and align ASI.
If you haven't read that post, basically the idea is that if we consider compute speed as a factor in Total Intelligence (alongside say, quality of intelligence), then it should be possible to k... | 2024-10-14 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aGz65X5uAydP2zkbP/foresight-vision-weekend-2024 | aGz65X5uAydP2zkbP | Foresight Vision Weekend 2024 | allison-duettmann | Vision Weekend US, Foresight’s annual festival, is approaching, offering an opportunity to engage with the world’s most forward-thinking ideas and individuals through the conference, unconference, office hours, mentorship sessions, tech demos, art exhibits, cyberfuture dinners, tea ceremonies, and aftershow parties.
Da... | 2024-10-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2HhJXkoaRLpd8Z9wK/ai-safety-newsletter-42-newsom-vetoes-sb-1047-plus-openai-s | 2HhJXkoaRLpd8Z9wK | AI Safety Newsletter #42: Newsom Vetoes SB 1047 Plus, OpenAI’s o1, and AI Governance Summary | corin-katzke | Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.
Listen to the AI Safety Newsletter for free on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
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Newsom Vetoes SB 1047
On Sunday, Governor Newsom vetoed Cal... | 2024-10-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rLQGD63B2znREaaP7/retrieval-augmented-genesis | rLQGD63B2znREaaP7 | Retrieval Augmented Genesis | joao-ribeiro-medeiros | a prototype and some thoughts on semantics
Before reading this article I strongly encourage you to Checkout the RAGenesis App!
Full code available at https://github.com/JoaoRibeiroMedeiros/RAGenesisOSS.
Screenshot of Verse Uni Verse page
Project Goals
Send a message of unity and mutual understanding between different c... | 2024-10-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/njBRhELvfMtjytYeH/momentum-of-light-in-glass | njBRhELvfMtjytYeH | Momentum of Light in Glass | ben-lang | I think that most people underestimate how many scientific mysteries remain, even on questions that sound basic.
My favourite candidate for "the most basic thing that is still unknown" is the momentum carried by light, when it is in a medium (for example, a flash of light in glass or water).
If a block of glass has a r... | 2024-10-09 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/i6fhyzeGw7kkPKAps/ai-model-registries-a-foundational-tool-for-ai-governance | i6fhyzeGw7kkPKAps | AI Model Registries: A Foundational Tool for AI Governance | elliot | This post consists of the Executive Summary and Conclusion of our proposal for model registries as a foundational tool for AI governance, authored by Elliot McKernon, Gwyn Glasser, Deric Cheng, and Gillian Hadfield. The full report is available through the link above.
Executive Summary of Our Proposal
In this report, w... | 2024-10-07 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/knSCiSGYG8BKqfzAC/information-dark-matter | knSCiSGYG8BKqfzAC | Information dark matter | logan-kieller | I started collecting a list of once “secret” documents that were, in one way or another, broadly released (whether it be through legal process, government disclosures, leaks, or the ideas themselves eventually turned into books):
The analysis done by Deutsche Bank investors to predict the 2008 financial crisis (dramati... | 2024-10-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qCp7WQgiGMwurfGxr/conventional-footnotes-considered-harmful | qCp7WQgiGMwurfGxr | Conventional footnotes considered harmful | dkl9 | Writers use footnotes — equally, endnotes — intending that they be optional for the reader. A note will hold a citation, technicality, or explanation, any of which is of interest to only some readers. This is a useful tactic, in principle.
Footnotes are indicated with ordinal symbols. A cue to a note may be a number, l... | 2024-10-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7u4A2JsNvpayGfW9h/likelihood-calculation-with-duobels | 7u4A2JsNvpayGfW9h | Likelihood calculation with duobels | martin-gerdes | The post An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes's Theorem explains that using Bayesian reasoning we can much better see how likely something is (by calculating conditional probabilities), and thus update our own beliefs as efficiently as possible.
However, the essay shows us how to calculate those probabilities using lots o... | 2024-10-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6kZ6gW5DEZKFfqvZD/newsom-vetoes-sb-1047 | 6kZ6gW5DEZKFfqvZD | Newsom Vetoes SB 1047 | Zvi | It’s over, until such a future time as either we are so back, or it is over for humanity.
Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB 1047.
Newsom’s Message In Full
Quoted text is him, comments are mine.
To the Members of the California State Senate: I am returning Senate Bill 1047 without my signature.
This bill would require develope... | 2024-10-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iTJugmRnQ9HSYHh2z/will-ai-and-humanity-go-to-war | iTJugmRnQ9HSYHh2z | Will AI and Humanity Go to War? | simon-goldstein | [This post is the introduction to my full paper, available here https://philpapers.org/rec/GOLWAA. This post was partially inspired by a LW comment thread between @Matthew Barnett and @Wei Dai.]
Abstract. This paper offers the first careful analysis of the possibility that AI and humanity will go to war. The paper focu... | 2024-10-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/whd4gJWdw2cn58bsw/ama-international-school-student-in-china | whd4gJWdw2cn58bsw | AMA: International School Student in China | Novice | Exigence:
1. Observed US/Euro-centricity of LW in general.
Context:
1. Author's lack of much national allegiance(banal nationalism) towards any given nation-state(the term banal nationalism comes from a book of the same title)
Discussion Proposals:
1. International schools in general
2. Discussion about nationalism/cos... | 2024-10-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7XMJPbZfc2qs6LQaH/intelligence-explosion-a-rational-assessment | 7XMJPbZfc2qs6LQaH | Intelligence explosion: a rational assessment. | p4rziv4l | Is there a more detailed analysis of the reasons for and against the intelligence explosion?
Also interested in other analytic timeline predictions. | 2024-09-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/S4fA2bKG27cfLi52f/peak-human-capital | S4fA2bKG27cfLi52f | Peak Human Capital | PeterMcCluskey | TL;DR: AI will soon reverse a big economic trend.
Epistemic status: This post is likely more speculative than most of my
posts. I'm writing this to clarify some vague guesses. Please assume
that most claims here are low-confidence forecasts.
There has been an important trend over the past century or so for human
capita... | 2024-09-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WACraar4p3o6oF2wD/sam-altman-s-business-negging | WACraar4p3o6oF2wD | Sam Altman's Business Negging | Julian Bradshaw | Quoting from Matt Levine's Money Stuff newsletter:
The place you want to reach in your career is where you work for a company and you are like “you know what, I am just so rich, I don’t want you to pay me anymore, it’s fine, I’ll work for free,” and your bosses are like “nope, sorry, we insist, we cannot allow you to w... | 2024-09-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3Rx4YCuepAb9oBBfR/why-comparative-advantage-does-not-help-horses | 3Rx4YCuepAb9oBBfR | Why comparative advantage does not help horses | Sherrinford | This post discusses what statements about comparative advantage say and what they do not say, and why comparative advantage does not save horses from getting sent to glue factories. It is only marginally about AI.
Eliezer Yudkowsky, in "The Sun is big, but superintelligences will not spare Earth a little sunlight", exp... | 2024-09-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bPTGNfN6gGG3BCSz7/is-text-watermarking-a-lost-cause | bPTGNfN6gGG3BCSz7 | Is Text Watermarking a lost cause? | egor.timatkov | Summary:
A text watermark is some edit to a piece of text that makes its creator easy to identify. The main use for this would be to watermark Large Language Model outputs. This post explores how effective any text watermark could be in general. It does this by analyzing the smallest amount of text that a watermark cou... | 2024-10-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KCbRx4DhR7puBvGkX/in-context-learning-an-alignment-survey | KCbRx4DhR7puBvGkX | In-Context Learning: An Alignment Survey | alamerton | Epistemic status: new to alignment; some background. I learned about alignment about 1.5 years ago and spent the last ~1 year getting up to speed on alignment through 12 AI safety-related courses and programmes while completing an artificial intelligence MSc programme. Ultimately this post is conjecture, based on my fi... | 2024-09-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rkhCvJzL5RXwqjcCK/point-of-failure-semiconductor-grade-quartz | rkhCvJzL5RXwqjcCK | Point of Failure: Semiconductor-Grade Quartz | jorge-velez | ChatGPT 4o’s interpretation of semiconductor grade quartz
We rarely think about where our stuff comes from or how it’s made. We go through our lives expecting that the things we consume are easily acquired. That is the beauty of modern society: supply chain logistics work so well that we seldom think about the conseque... | 2024-09-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5QFGBFt7wXv4ekWKh/on-bacteria-on-teeth | 5QFGBFt7wXv4ekWKh | on bacteria, on teeth | bhauth | You may have heard that tooth decay is caused by bacteria producing lactic acid. Let's consider that a little more deeply.
criteria for decay
To effectively cause cavities, bacteria must meet 4 criteria:
Anchoring (with special proteins) to either the tooth surface or something connected to it.
Biofilm production to tr... | 2024-09-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xCMadf5WntvRGfjZr/sb-1047-gets-vetoed | xCMadf5WntvRGfjZr | SB 1047 gets vetoed | ryan_b | Just what it says on the tin. Covered most everywhere, but I found the quote in this Reuters article stuck out to me the most:
Newsom said the bill "does not take into account whether an AI system is deployed in high-risk environments, involves critical decision-making or the use of sensitive data" and would apply "str... | 2024-09-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/roE7SHjFWEoMcGZKd/circuits-in-superposition-compressing-many-small-neural | roE7SHjFWEoMcGZKd | Circuits in Superposition: Compressing many small neural networks into one | Lblack | Tl;dr: We generalize the mathematical framework for computation in superposition from compressing many boolean logic gates into a neural network, to compressing many small neural networks into a larger neural network. The number of small networks we can fit into the large network depends on the small networks' total pa... | 2024-10-14 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qQaennoJMJsXRs5zq/of-birds-and-bees | qQaennoJMJsXRs5zq | Of Birds and Bees | RussellThor | The Hierarchy
There is a hierarchy in life from simple cells to complex cells to multi-cellular creatures to creatures that often live in a groups like birds and bees. As we go up the hierarchy the lower levels have less individual say. For example the mitochondria have no individual life or fitness outside of the cell... | 2024-09-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4eMkvDtNL8feh8uKn/a-new-process-for-mapping-discussions | 4eMkvDtNL8feh8uKn | A new process for mapping discussions | Nathan Young | Recently my team and I have been working on FindingConsensus.AI. It’s a site to show how public figures would answer specific questions about Artificial Intelligence (but it could work for anything). Often when thinking, I defer to figures I trust, so seeing a spread of public figures gives me a head start. I hope that... | 2024-09-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Xviomeb4j4DurGzDi/exploring-decomposability-of-sae-features | Xviomeb4j4DurGzDi | Exploring Decomposability of SAE Features | viknat | TL;DR
SAE features are often less decomposable than the feature descriptions imply. By leveraging a prompting technique to test potential sub-components of individual SAE features (for example (using the analogy from the linked post) decomposing Einstein into “German”, “physics”, "relativity” and “famous”), I found ver... | 2024-09-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZP8YAwGvv8iPr3BvX/most-capable-publicly-available-agents | ZP8YAwGvv8iPr3BvX | Most capable publicly available agents? | Gabe | Looking to do a little compare and contrast. | 2024-09-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jE3L5ysyx6waX89Cb/not-just-for-therapy-chatbots-the-case-for-compassion-in-ai | jE3L5ysyx6waX89Cb | Not Just For Therapy Chatbots: The Case For Compassion In AI Moral Alignment Research | kenneth_diao | Purpose and Introduction
Much AI Safety research has focused on ensuring AIs conform to the intentions implicitly given by humans, but this approach alone may be insufficient (Ji et al., 2024, Section 4.3). Some recent research has explicitly used human values and preferences as benchmarks for AI moral reasoning (e.g.,... | 2024-09-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ipNaYojbg2kSMLCoE/0-202-bits-of-evidence-in-favor-of-futarchy | ipNaYojbg2kSMLCoE | 0.202 Bits of Evidence In Favor of Futarchy | niplav | So, I put up some prediction markets on the results of quantified
self RCTs. I ran
one of the experiments, and scored one
market on the results.
How much should the performance of the market change our opinion about
the viability of using prediction platforms to predict RCTs, and thus be
plausibly useful in selecting e... | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/E4FPkFF4pJ3S4Ncis/pomodoro-method-randomized-self-experiment | E4FPkFF4pJ3S4Ncis | Pomodoro Method Randomized Self Experiment | niplav | Value tracked
Effect size d (λ, p, σ change, k)
Productivity
0.26 (λ≈6.23, p≈0.069, 0.05, 52)
Creativity
-0.04 (λ≈0.58, p≈0.92, 0.01, 52)
Subjective length
-0.147 (λ≈3.33, p≈0.37, 0.03, 52)
Happiness
-0.07 (λ≈0.32, p≈0.96, 0.01, 111)
Contentment
-0.13 (λ≈1.08, p≈0.83, 0.05, 111)
Relaxation
-0.04 (λ≈1.23, p≈0.8, -0.25, ... | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rzyHbLZHuqHq6KM65/three-subtle-examples-of-data-leakage | rzyHbLZHuqHq6KM65 | Three Subtle Examples of Data Leakage | abstractapplic | This is a description of my work on some data science projects, lightly obfuscated and fictionalized to protect the confidentiality of the organizations I handled them for (and also to make it flow better). I focus on the high-level epistemic/mathematical issues, and the lived experience of working on intellectual prob... | 2024-10-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RaS97GGeBXZDnFi2L/llms-are-likely-not-conscious | RaS97GGeBXZDnFi2L | LLMs are likely not conscious | research_prime_space | I think the sparse autoencoder line of interpretability work is somewhat convincing evidence that LLMs are not conscious.
In order for me to consciously take in some information (e.g. the house is yellow), I need to store not only the contents of the statement but also some aspect of my conscious experience. I need to ... | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MoJK5rcJwRACY4zfD/models-of-life | MoJK5rcJwRACY4zfD | Models of life | abhishaike-mahajan | 2024
Statistical models of organisms have existed for decades. The earliest ones relied on simple linear regression and attempted to correlate genetic variations with observable traits or disease risks — such as drug metabolization rates or cancer susceptibility. As computational power increased and machine learning te... | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HQyWGE2BummDCc2Cx/the-case-for-cot-unfaithfulness-is-overstated | HQyWGE2BummDCc2Cx | the case for CoT unfaithfulness is overstated | nostalgebraist | [Quickly written, unpolished. Also, it's possible that there's some more convincing work on this topic that I'm unaware of – if so, let me know. Also also, it's possible I'm arguing with an imaginary position here and everyone already agrees with everything below.]
In research discussions about LLMs, I often pick up a ... | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wopNDxxizjY6sMbpd/building-safer-ai-from-the-ground-up-steering-model-behavior | wopNDxxizjY6sMbpd | Building Safer AI from the Ground Up: Steering Model Behavior via Pre-Training Data Curation | antonio-clarke | Building Safer AI from the Ground Up: Steering Model Behavior via Pre-Training Data Curation
I completed this blog post as my final project for BlueDot Impact's AI Alignment course. While it's nowhere near as polished as I'd like it to be given the short-term nature of the course, I'd love to hear what others think of ... | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dPwttHGXwti4B3chf/a-policy-proposal | dPwttHGXwti4B3chf | A Policy Proposal | phdead | (Crosspost of https://phoropter.substack.com/p/a-policy-proposal)
TL;DR: I think that the features used by recommendation systems should be configurable by end users receiving recommendations, and that this ability should be enforced by policy. Just as the GDPR protects a user's ability to choose which cookies are enab... | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bsXPTiAhhwt5nwBW3/do-sparse-autoencoders-saes-transfer-across-base-and | bsXPTiAhhwt5nwBW3 | Do Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) transfer across base and finetuned language models? | Taras Kutsyk | This is a project submission post for the AI Safety Fundamentals course from BlueDot Impact. Therefore, some of its sections are intended to be beginner-friendly and overly verbose for familiar readers (mainly the Introduction section) and may freely be skipped.
TLDR (Executive Summary)
We explored whether Sparse Autoe... | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WE65pBLQvNk3h3Dnr/cryonics-is-free | WE65pBLQvNk3h3Dnr | Cryonics is free | MathieuRoy | I've been wanting to write a nice post for a few months, but should probably just write one sooner instead. This is a top-level post not because it's a long post, but because it's an important one.
Anyways. Cryonics is pretty much money-free now (ie. subsidized technically)—one of the most affordable ways to dispose of... | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Fz5tg9H5xE7oLnT9d/runner-s-high-on-demand-a-story-of-luck-and-persistence | Fz5tg9H5xE7oLnT9d | Runner's High On Demand: A Story of Luck & Persistence | DarkSym | I can get runner’s high on demand. It takes about 15 minutes of jogging at a pace of 6-7 kph and a heart rate of around 140 bpm. I need to be hungry but not starving. And my body has to otherwise be doing fine.
The ability unlocked rather suddenly for me and I’m not sure why it did. However, people have told me they’d ... | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hs2LMxjRwzSiz9LSt/my-methodological-turn | hs2LMxjRwzSiz9LSt | My Methodological Turn | adamShimi | This substack is now "For Methods", in a nod to Feyerabend's classic "Against Method".[1]
Like Feyerabend, I want to dispel the specters of the one true method, be it the Popperian "scientific method"or Bayes. Such fake ideals miss all the weird little pieces, all the gleaming details that make the methods live and bre... | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FAsjqL45SCAQPmYvD/linkpost-hypocrisy-standoff | FAsjqL45SCAQPmYvD | Linkpost: Hypocrisy standoff | Chris_Leong | null | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FNuBEJnbtEEdCEAnT/interpreting-the-effects-of-jailbreak-prompts-in-llms | FNuBEJnbtEEdCEAnT | Interpreting the effects of Jailbreak Prompts in LLMs | harsh-raj-ep-037 | GColab
What is Jailbreaking?
Jailbreaking, in the context of Large Language Models (LLMs), refers to the process of crafting specific prompts that intentionally bypass or subvert the built-in alignment mechanisms, such as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). These alignment mechanisms are designed to ensu... | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/79AGX6BDeWdFYqgYE/any-real-toeholds-for-making-practical-decisions-regarding | 79AGX6BDeWdFYqgYE | Any real toeholds for making practical decisions regarding AI safety? | lcmgcd | Let's call the thing where you try to take actions that make everyone/yourself less dead (on expectation) the "safety game". This game is annoyingly chaotic, kind of like Arimaa.
You write the sequences then some risk-averse not-very-power-seeking nerds read it and you're 10x less dead. Then Mr. Altman reads it and y... | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Foh7HQYeuN2Gej5k6/new-capabilities-new-risks-evaluating-agentic-general | Foh7HQYeuN2Gej5k6 | New Capabilities, New Risks? - Evaluating Agentic General Assistants using Elements of GAIA & METR Frameworks | tej-lander | by Tej Lander FCCT
Above: LLMs vs Agentic Assistants - a big step forward? (Image created by DALL.E via GPT4o)
Overview
Abstract
1: Why are Agentic Systems a ‘hot topic’?
2: What makes a system ‘agentic’?
2.1 Taxonomy of Agenticness from Shavit et al. (2023, OpenAI)
2.2 Taxonomy of Agenticness from Chan et al. (2023, F... | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ozR3BRDs8zJBJrz5P/axrp-episode-36-adam-shai-and-paul-riechers-on-computational | ozR3BRDs8zJBJrz5P | AXRP Episode 36 - Adam Shai and Paul Riechers on Computational Mechanics | DanielFilan | YouTube link
Sometimes, people talk about transformers as having “world models” as a result of being trained to predict text data on the internet. But what does this even mean? In this episode, I talk with Adam Shai and Paul Riechers about their work applying computational mechanics, a sub-field of physics studying how... | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HtfBpqbEqEBNuWXSc/duncon-lighthaven | HtfBpqbEqEBNuWXSc | DunCon @Lighthaven | Duncan_Sabien | null | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DznTxD4TgCoqtBLsy/san-francisco-acx-meetup-first-saturday-8 | DznTxD4TgCoqtBLsy | San Francisco ACX Meetup “First Saturday” | nate-sternberg | Date: Saturday, October 5th, 2024
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm PT
Address: Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, just outside the Metreon food court, coordinates 37°47'04.4"N 122°24'11.1"W
Contact: 34251super@gmail.com
Come join San Francisco’s First Saturday (or SFFS – easy to remember, right?) ACX meetup. Whether you're an avid... | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ronAKFdTDE7tiZk2c/developmental-stages-in-multi-problem-grokking | ronAKFdTDE7tiZk2c | Developmental Stages in Multi-Problem Grokking | James Sullivan | Summary
This post is my capstone project for BlueDot Impact’s AI Alignment course. It was a 12 week online course that covered AI risks, alignment, scalable oversight, technical governance and more. You can read more about it here.
In this project, I investigated the use of a developmental interpretability method—speci... | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NBMR5KvbeMKmvFnbX/a-psychoanalytic-explanation-of-sam-altman-s-irrational | NBMR5KvbeMKmvFnbX | A Psychoanalytic Explanation of Sam Altman's Irrational Actions | Gabe | Du sublime au ridicule il n’y a qu’un pas
From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step
A quote often used to describe Napoleon, Sam Altman is making history rhyme. His cool confidence often gives an air of sublime, and as of last week, it seems he has crossed into the ridiculous. And with the ridiculous, the irrati... | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6svEwNBhokQ83qMBz/slow-takeoff-is-a-terrible-term-for-maybe-even-faster | 6svEwNBhokQ83qMBz | "Slow" takeoff is a terrible term for "maybe even faster takeoff, actually" | Raemon | For a long time, when I heard "slow takeoff", I assumed it meant "takeoff that takes longer calendar time than fast takeoff." (i.e. what is now referred to more often as "short timelines" vs "long timelines."). I think Paul Christiano popularized the term, and it so happened he both expected to see longer timelines and... | 2024-09-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2Nt5LDuzTch9JYvBP/agi-farm | 2Nt5LDuzTch9JYvBP | AGI Farm | rahul-chand | This post discusses Joe Carlsmith’s views on how to approach the problem of AI risk as interspecies interaction and how humans can use it navigate future AI development better. The essay is divided into three parts. First I give my understanding of Carlsmith's views, then I build upon some of his ideas by relating them... | 2024-10-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jhDCRe7fnsvubknBp/llm-psychometrics-and-prompt-induced-psychopathy | jhDCRe7fnsvubknBp | LLM Psychometrics and Prompt-Induced Psychopathy | korbinian-koch | This post contains experimental results and personal takes from my participation in the July 2024 edition of the BlueDot Impact AI Safety Fundamentals course.
TL;DR:
Psychopaths are willing to manipulate and deceive. Psychometrics try to measure this with standardized tests.AI models express different levels of psychop... | 2024-10-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uwmFSaDMprsFkpWet/explore-more-a-bag-of-tricks-to-keep-your-life-on-the-rails | uwmFSaDMprsFkpWet | Explore More: A Bag of Tricks to Keep Your Life on the Rails | DarkSym | At least, if you happen to be near me in brain space.
What advice would you give your younger self?
That was the prompt for a class I taught at PAIR 2024. About a quarter of participants ranked it in their top 3 of courses at the camp and half of them had it listed as their favorite.
I hadn’t expected that.
I thought m... | 2024-09-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YWo2cKJgL7Lg8xWjj/base-llms-refuse-too | YWo2cKJgL7Lg8xWjj | Base LLMs refuse too | ckkissane | Executive Summary
Refusing harmful requests is not a novel behavior learned in chat fine-tuning, as pre-trained base models will also refuse requests (48% of all harmful requests, 3% of harmless) just at a lower rate than chat models (90% harmful, 3% harmless)Further, for both Qwen 1.5 0.5B and Gemma 2 9B, chat fine-tu... | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qLvqhcoSARqAAYMG9/any-trump-supporters-want-to-dialogue | qLvqhcoSARqAAYMG9 | Any Trump Supporters Want to Dialogue? | k64 | It's that time of year - the time when rationality seems increasingly scarce as political tensions rise. I find myself wishing I could have one of the people I see reaching super different conclusions shoot me with a POV gun so I could understand what it's like being on the other side.
I'm not strongly left-leaning, s... | 2024-09-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GWteDqb6nAWg3ihjd/evaluating-llama-3-for-political-sycophancy | GWteDqb6nAWg3ihjd | Evaluating LLaMA 3 for political sycophancy | alma.liezenga | TLDR: I evaluated LLaMA v3 (8B + 70B) for political sycophancy using one of the two datasets I created. The results for this dataset suggest that sycophancy definitely occurs in a blatant way for both models though more clearly for 8B than for 70B. There are hints of politically tainted sycophancy, with the model espec... | 2024-09-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dHrTjywTTfKJZ5TQL/cot-scaling-implies-slower-takeoff-speeds | dHrTjywTTfKJZ5TQL | COT Scaling implies slower takeoff speeds | logan-zoellner | This graph is the biggest update to the AI alignment discourse since GPT-3
For those of you unfamiliar with the lore, prior to GPT-3, the feeling was that AGI would rapidly foom based on recursive-self improvement.
After GPT-3, it became clear that the first AGI would in reality be built in a large lab using a multi-bi... | 2024-09-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vgmPXYg5isqD33vFT/two-new-datasets-for-evaluating-political-sycophancy-in-llms | vgmPXYg5isqD33vFT | Two new datasets for evaluating political sycophancy in LLMs | alma.liezenga | TLDR: I created two datasets (154 and 759 statements) that can aid in measuring political sycophancy (in the US in particular) by combining a diverse set of political statements with quantitative data on the degree to which different political groups (dis)agree with those statements. The datasets can be found here.
Wit... | 2024-09-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pknCJt92qfkQjG2Q4/thoughts-on-evo-bio-math-and-mesa-optimization-maybe-we-need | pknCJt92qfkQjG2Q4 | Thoughts on Evo-Bio Math and Mesa-Optimization: Maybe We Need To Think Harder About "Relative" Fitness? | Lorec | Does natural selection, in general, really go by inclusive relative reproductive fitness?
Does sexual selection? This seems somewhat likelier.
Obviously there's a trivial sense in which the type of reproductive fitness that natural selection selects for, in general, is not relative. The coarsest denominator, the "botto... | 2024-09-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wD6qnCacTtriHzCbh/happy-simulations | wD6qnCacTtriHzCbh | Happy simulations | nicolo-moretti | Certainty is impossible.
Something exists rather than nothing.
One can't justify stopping using logic with logic.
Logic tells you what is most likely from your own perspective, it's helpful.
Beliefs that don't follow logic or evidence are not helpful on their own, since their own opposite is just as likely.
If a story ... | 2024-10-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/k8bBx4HcTF9iyikma/sae-features-for-refusal-and-sycophancy-steering-vectors | k8bBx4HcTF9iyikma | SAE features for refusal and sycophancy steering vectors | neverix | TL;DR
Steering vectors provide evidence that linear directions in LLMs are interpretable. Since SAEs decompose linear directions, they should be able to interpret steering vectors.We apply the gradient pursuit algorithm suggested by Smith et al to decompose steering vectors, and find that they contain many interpretabl... | 2024-10-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bsYpKtaS2L6sqbKbq/an-interactive-shapley-value-explainer | bsYpKtaS2L6sqbKbq | An Interactive Shapley Value Explainer | james-brown | This Shapley Value Calculator breaks down the formula in simple steps, using cats. | 2024-09-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fbw3PcLTGn53fxCM7/exploring-shard-like-behavior-empirical-insights-into | fbw3PcLTGn53fxCM7 | Exploring Shard-like Behavior: Empirical Insights into Contextual Decision-Making in RL Agents | alejandro-aristizabal | Image generated by Microsoft Bing Image Creator
Abstract
Shard Theory posits that reinforcement learning agents can be modeled as collections of contextually activated decision influences, or "shards." However, the mechanistic definition of shards remains an open question. This study investigates the contextual activat... | 2024-09-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qBgwApAqAhusGoxyQ/implications-of-china-s-recession-on-agi-development | qBgwApAqAhusGoxyQ | Implications of China's recession on AGI development? | UnexpectedValues | It seems that China may be going through a recession. It's hard to tell because we can't really trust government data, but my vague impression (which you shouldn't trust very much) is that China is in a pretty bad economic position.
Source: Financial Times (though see here for caveats).
What implications (if any) does ... | 2024-09-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4q9P5EMvbit8Ekruh/chat-with-impactful-research-and-evaluations-unjournal | 4q9P5EMvbit8Ekruh | 'Chat with impactful research & evaluations' (Unjournal NotebookLMs) | david-reinstein | Post status: First-pass, looking for feedback, aiming to build and share something more polished and comprehensive
The Unjournal: background, progress, push for communications and impact
The Unjournal is a nonprofit that publicly evaluates and rates research, focusing on impact.
We now have about 30 "evaluation package... | 2024-09-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jeBkx6agMuBCQW94C/mats-alumni-impact-analysis | jeBkx6agMuBCQW94C | MATS Alumni Impact Analysis | utilistrutil | Summary
This winter, MATS will be running our seventh program. In early-mid 2024, 46% of alumni from our first four programs (Winter 2021-22 to Summer 2023) completed a survey about their career progress since participating in MATS. This report presents key findings from the responses of these 72 alumni.
78% of respond... | 2024-09-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gXinMpNJcXXgSTEpn/ai-craftsmanship | gXinMpNJcXXgSTEpn | AI Craftsmanship | abramdemski | Epistemic status: in some sense, I am just complaining, and making light of the extensive effort which goes into designing modern AI. I'm focusing on a sense that something is missing and could be better, which might incidentally come off as calling a broad category of people stupid. Sorry.
The video Badness 0 by Sucke... | 2024-11-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3AmoGjF2bgZqjnh5s/eye-contact-is-effortless-when-you-re-no-longer-emotionally | 3AmoGjF2bgZqjnh5s | Eye contact is effortless when you’re no longer emotionally blocked on it | Chipmonk | Story time! I wanted to run a fun party: "Make 100% eye contact or get sent to jail!" But I didn’t want to force people to make eye contact… I wanted everyone to be genuinely comfortable! How?
Consider: Eye contact is effortless without emotional blocks. If you have trouble making eye contact, you’re probably held back... | 2024-09-27 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EvRbm3yrouTwFewrt/where-is-the-learn-everything-system | EvRbm3yrouTwFewrt | Where is the Learn Everything System? | DarkSym | or how many steps are left till we have an education platform for everyone
I’m trying to figure out how to build a universal education platform.
I don’t know how to do it.
By a ‘universal education platform’ I mean a system that allows anyone to learn anything and everything.
That’s a little ambitious.
So for argument’... | 2024-09-27 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PBKcXv5zjeezjFxot/an-observatory-for-a-shy-super-ai | PBKcXv5zjeezjFxot | An "Observatory" For a Shy Super AI? | Sherrinford | Sorry for posting this twice, but I just could not change the formatting of the text the first time.
This is an excerpt from Rob Reid's substack post "An 'Observatory' For a Shy Super AI?" which describes a thought experiment about a manipulative AI.
The excerpt is a bit of a spoiler, better read the actual text.
The e... | 2024-09-27 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wzkud8hMnsKv33W7g/searching-for-impossibility-results-or-no-go-theorems-for | wzkud8hMnsKv33W7g | Searching for Impossibility Results or No-Go Theorems for provable safety. | Maelstrom | I am looking for results showing that various approaches to provable safety are impossible or that such proofs are of a particular complexity class. I have Yampolskiy's paper "Impossibility Results in AI: A Survey," but I am looking for more targeted results that would help guide research into provable safety. Many of ... | 2024-09-27 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yfykEuvxKHnwTnAZN/the-compute-conundrum-ai-governance-in-a-shifting | yfykEuvxKHnwTnAZN | The Compute Conundrum: AI Governance in a Shifting Geopolitical Era | azelen | Introduction
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved from a futuristic concept to a transformative force reshaping industries, economies, and societies worldwide. As AI systems become increasingly sophisticated, ensuring that they act in ways aligned with human values—known as AI alignment—has emerged as a cri... | 2024-09-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nq8XhdqkodfusJcmD/what-is-randomness | nq8XhdqkodfusJcmD | What is Randomness? | martinkunev | epistemic status: my intuition after reading and watching a bunch of stuff; no new information
You take a die in your hand. If you throw it, the result will be what people usually call a random number. Let's say you get 2. What do we mean when we say that this number is random? To answer these questions, I will try to ... | 2024-09-27 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3Auq76LFtBA4Jp5M8/why-is-o1-so-deceptive | 3Auq76LFtBA4Jp5M8 | Why is o1 so deceptive? | abramdemski | The o1 system card reports:
0.8% of o1-preview’s responses got flagged as being ‘deceptive’ [...] roughly two thirds of which appear to be intentional (0.38%), meaning that there was some evidence in the chain of thought that o1-preview was aware that the answer was incorrect [...] Intentional hallucinations primarily ... | 2024-09-27 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2q6DqS8znbiJrGAur/the-offense-defense-balance-of-gene-drives | 2q6DqS8znbiJrGAur | The Offense-Defense Balance of Gene Drives | maxwell-tabarrok | I recently wrote a twitter thread for Works In Progress summarizing their article on gene drives as a tool to end malaria. There’s a section in that piece that I didn’t get to highlight in the thread which I want to talk about here: the offense-defense balance of gene drives.
What Are Gene Drives and How do They Work?
... | 2024-09-27 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5qbcmKdfWc7vskrRD/book-review-on-the-edge-the-future | 5qbcmKdfWc7vskrRD | Book Review: On the Edge: The Future | Zvi | Previously: The Fundamentals, The Gamblers, The Business
We have now arrived at the topics most central to this book, aka ‘The Future.’
Rationalism and Effective Altruism (EA)
The Manifest conference was also one of the last reporting trips that I made for this book. And it confirmed for me that the River is real—not j... | 2024-09-27 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Twda7wrAsxv9YLpSK/knowledge-base-1-could-it-increase-intelligence-and-make-it | Twda7wrAsxv9YLpSK | Knowledge Base 1: Could it increase intelligence and make it safer? | iwis | This series of posts presents the idea of building a knowledge database that allows for the collection and exchange of reliable information between people, computers, and between people and computers. It also discusses how this database could increase the intelligence of both people and computers, and increase the safe... | 2024-09-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KLDc5JuQZLiimB58b/is-cybercrime-really-costing-trillions-per-year | KLDc5JuQZLiimB58b | Is cybercrime really costing trillions per year? | Fabien | Many sources report that cybercrime costs the global economy trillions of dollars per year. It is the top Google search result and it is quoted on Wikipedia. But I am not able to track down how the number was computed, or find criticism of these numbers.
This would be insanely high if true: the world GDP is only 100 tr... | 2024-09-27 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NsxFcB2EAxcY6cdGh/2024-petrov-day-retrospective | NsxFcB2EAxcY6cdGh | 2024 Petrov Day Retrospective | Benito | (Follow-up to The 2024 Petrov Day Scenario)
Part 0: "Previously, on Petrov Day..."
By Raymond Arnold
One year ago, many people on LessWrong received a DM asking them to choose the most important virtue of Petrov Day, with four listed options that we'd seen people argue for in previous years.
"Avoiding actions that noti... | 2024-09-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5XjzmxcZFm3BJrNmn/avoiding-jailbreaks-by-discouraging-their-representation-in-5 | 5XjzmxcZFm3BJrNmn | Avoiding jailbreaks by discouraging their representation in activation space | Guido Bergman | This project was completed as part of the AI Safety Fundamentals: Alignment Course by BlueDot Impact. All the code, data and results are available in this repository.
Abstract
The goal of this project is to answer two questions: “Can jailbreaks be represented as a linear direction in activation space?” and if so, “Can ... | 2024-09-27 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/phRTiFM9AFvPxHs6R/australian-ai-safety-forum-2024 | phRTiFM9AFvPxHs6R | Australian AI Safety Forum 2024 | liam-carroll | We're excited to announce the inaugural Australian AI Safety Forum, taking place on November 7-8, 2024, in Sydney, Australia. This event aims to foster the growth of the AI safety community within Australia.
Apply now!
Key Details
Dates: November 7-8, 2024Location: Sydney Knowledge Hub, The University of SydneyWebsite:... | 2024-09-27 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QaLTWcHJAvfsRAbR8/doing-nothing-utility-function | QaLTWcHJAvfsRAbR8 | Doing Nothing Utility Function | k64 | One of the questions I've heard asked is "how do you design a utility function that would make the AI do nothing?" That is, how could we put a pause button on an AI so that we could pause it if we wanted to? I had an idea about how one could do this, and am sure it has already been thought of, so I'm curious to know ... | 2024-09-26 |
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